Archive | January 13, 2011

Foreign Ministry urges for developments in media capabilities

[ 13/01/2011 – 08:54 AM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– Ahmed Yousef, a political advisor for the Palestinian Foreign Ministry, called for the presence of foreign language speaking journalists in Gaza to accurately report incidents with good translation. Yousef, speaking at a seminar titled “Aggression against Gaza and drawing lessons”, organized by the culture ministry on […]

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Army demolishes houses, part of school in South Hebron Hills

13.01.11 |By: EAPPI Nasser Najadah next to the ruins in Dkaika (Photo: A Skaardal, EAPPI). “On the morning of January 12, children of Dkaika were in school and the families were going through their morning routines. Suddenly, the army appeared and the demolitions began,” reported international accompaniers from EAPPI yesterday. Among the structures demolished were […]

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Sources: 70 Settlers Homes to Replace East Jerusalem Shepherd Hotel

PNN – Palestine News Network – 13.01.11 – 09:43 Jerusalem – PNN – Israeli media sources announced on Thursday that settlers are planning to build 50 homes on the location of the Shepherd Hotel in East Jerusalem.   Construction work at the Shepherds Hotel – Photo by al-Maqdese for Social Development On Sunday Israeli bulldozers began […]

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163 charities blacklisted by Israel because ‘contaminated by terror’

Posted by gazasolidarity on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 10:37 am. Israel doesn’t like charities. UK-based charity Interpal is one of the targets. Must give them some more money. The Israel Money Laundering and Terror Financing Prohibition Authority has located 163 organizations contaminated with funds related to terrorism over the past three years, and issued […]

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Hamas: PA colluding with US Blackwater

Published Jan, 13, 2011|  11:30 | Ma’an News Agency GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Following an agreement that would give private US security group Blackwater access to the West Bank, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said the move meant Palestinians were “under double attack.”   Chief of the PA security forces in the West Bank Adnan Dmeiri, […]

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FACEBOOK TRYING TO ‘DEACTIVATE’ THE TRUTH’

January 12, 2011 at 16:18 In Defense of Uruknet! Tonight’s post is about defending one of our colleages, comrades, friends, and allies. Tonight is about defending Uruknet whose blog is dedicated to providing information from the Middle East. For those of you who don’t know who Uruknet, please have a look at http://www.uruknet.info/.  This blog […]

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Bil’in demonstrations coordinator sentenced to 16 months in prison

[ 12/01/2011 – 10:33 AM ]   RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Abdullah Abu Rahma, coordinator of the Bil’in anti-separation wall committee, was sentenced on Tuesday to 16 months in prison other than a three-year suspended sentence and was forced to pay NIS 5,000 in fines. The Israeli Ofer Court charged Abu Rahma with incitement and participation in […]

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Husseini family denies selling or giving Shepherd hotel to any party

[ 12/01/2011 – 08:47 AM ]   OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Al-Husseini family categorically denied that it made any deal to cede Shepherd hotel in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, affirming that the building was seized illegally and for political reasons by the Custodian of Absentee Property, Israeli official circles, and the Zionist millionaire Irving Moskowitz. A spokesman […]

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Erdogan: Turkey will stand by Hamas

[ 13/01/2011 – 07:45 AM ]   ISTANBUL, (PIC)– Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country stands by Hamas, calling the resistance movement an election-taking political party, and ruling out achieving peace in the region without them. “We stand by Hamas when they are right, because the Hamas movement is a resistance movement. […]

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IOF serves demolition notifications, settlers seize Palestinian land

[ 13/01/2011 – 07:38 AM ]   NABLUS, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) served demolition notices to a number of citizens in Jaftalk village in the northern Jordan Valley on Wednesday and told them to leave the area. Eyewitnesses said that the destruction threat covered six installations including homes and cattle pens, adding that the […]

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Jerusalem municipality to build a Jewish museum in Silwan

Thursday, 13 January, 2011 | 08:55 |  Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwan, Jerusalem The entrance to the “City of David” visitors center – part of Elad’s controlled areas in Silwan Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — According to a report by Haaretz newspaper, the Jerusalem municipality and the Israeli ministry of tourism will transfer 2 million […]

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Al-Jazeera files complaint over security checks at Jerusalem event

13 January 2011 IOA Editor: Israel’s Shin-Bet security services has gone berserk – along with most of the country’s parliament, “Defense” (Occupation) Department, the national Police Department, and so many other public agencies and social sectors.   By Gili Izikovich and Jack Khoury, Haaretz – 13 Jan 2010 http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/al-jazeera-files-complaint-over-security-checks-at-jerusalem-event-1.336695 A female reporter for the Qatar-based […]

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Israeli FM’s visit protested in Greece

PressTV – Thu Jan 13, 2011 3:19AM Pro-Palestinian supporters wave Palestinian flags in a protest to Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s visit to Greece, January 12, 2011. Dozens of Palestinians in Greece have taken to streets to protest a visit by Israel’s hawkish Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. The Palestinians and pro-Palestinian supporters gathered on Wednesday […]

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Palestinians discuss Israeli war threats

PressTV –  Thu Jan 13, 2011 2:4AM A missile fired by an Israeli aircraft killed a Palestinian in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis, January 11, 2011. Hamas and a number of other Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip have met to discuss recent Israeli threats to wage a new war on the […]

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